I’ve just returned from OpenStack Summit 2015 in Vancouver where 6000+ software-defined attendees convened to contribute and commune and where the opening keynote speaker laid down the following proclamation: Every company is becoming a software company and every company has to write...
Read More »This last week we were at EMC World, held in Las Vegas with a record crowd and lots of news. The big, actionable news items were the new XtremIO (bigger, better), a cool new DSSD rack-scale flash system (faster but...
Read More »Last week, Dot Hill hosted a financial analyst event in NYC, right next to the NASDAQ. Three years ago, their stock was hovering around 1.00 and things were not looking particularly great for the company. They were critiqued for being...
Read More »Las Vegas – The storage presence at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show last week continued to grow due to the increasing demand to store files in the media and entertainment market. The increase in camera resolution to 4K...
Read More »Over the last year we have seen a new type of storage player enter the Enterprise IT market. This group includes names that we’ve known as component players tucked inside the systems (think Intel inside), but are now entering the...
Read More »Several months ago, Evaluator Group joined the webinar service BrightTalk to provide educational content on storage. Reading through BrightTalk’s list of past and upcoming summits (day-long webinar events), we noticed they had content on nearly every major new storage technology...
Read More »John Webster delivered the presentation Solving Big Data Problems at SNIA’s Data Storage Innovation conference on Thursday, April 9. If you weren’t able to catch his presentation live, view his slides here on-demand.
Read More »Russ Fellows delivered "Solid State Deployments: Recommendations for POCs" at SNIA's Data Storage Innovation conference on Tuesday, April 7. If you weren't able to catch his presentation live, view his slides here on-demand.
Read More »Software Defined Storage Needs a More Clearly Defined Value Proposition The Software Defined Storage (SDS) model in its early days was often compared to Software Defined Networking (SDN). Both used virtualization as a foundational technology and replaced hardware constructs with software...
Read More »Bifurcating Enterprise Storage The enterprise storage market is splitting into two areas that are still indistinct but will become a lot less so. It’s important to understand this evolution if you are to make sense of storage vendor product strategy....
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